Tryggvi Thayer, Ph.D.
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Pew overstating changes in blogging/internet behavior?
The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project has released new findings that they claim show that, “… young people are losing interest in long-form blogging, as their communication habits have become increasingly brief, and mobile.” If this is … Continue reading
Ubiquitous computing in education – really?
The January, 2010 edition of the Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment is dedicated to research on U.S. 1:1 (or one-to-one) laptop programs, i.e. school programs that supply a laptop to each and every student and teacher in the school. … Continue reading
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Uruguay gives laptops to every public primary school student
Uruguay has completed their plan of equipping every student in the country’s public primary schools with an XO Laptop computer. The final count of the computers was 396,727 laptop computers. The project is not completed because not all of the … Continue reading
Broadband access becomes a legal right in Finland
Finland recently became the first country in the world make access to highspeed Internet a legal right. International institutions like the UN hafa promoted access to communications technology as a human right at least since UNESCO’s MacBride Report (Many Voices … Continue reading
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Educational change is cultural change
George Siemens, at the Connectivism blog, has written an interesting article that highlights several of the difficulties associated with open approaches to education. Siemens focuses on the policy changes needed to make open resources viable for education. There are especially … Continue reading
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Why are we slow to adopt technology for education?
For the past year, I’ve been researching the integration of technology in education, and most recently the use of cell phones, as I mentioned in a recent post. What I have seen is that the use of communication technology in … Continue reading
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